Fire Update and ...---...

Fire Update...

We got the newspaper today and the main headline was 'Firestorm'. With a picture from our subdivision on the front page. The story continued on the third page and right there on the top of the page was this picture...



That is our house and this picture gives a better view of what happened. You can also see this picture and others in our area on the www.Magicvalley.com website...

The morning after the fire, I went down to the sprinkler supply place and got the parts I needed to repair the melted drip lines around the hill. I was telling the guy there about the fire and he said that a customer was in there yesterday, when the fire was happening, and got a call from his frantic wife about the fire. The customer said that as he was talking to his wife, she said that their new gas BBQ just took off in the wind and was gone...

All I can say to that is WOW! The winds must have been strong here, but that is impressive...

We have gotten most of the significant problems resolved now. This guy that was the lead forman for the Great Garage Flood of '06 came by, he lives in the area, and is going to do the roof repairs for a reasonable cost today. So, that is good and timely...

The power and cable/Internet kept going up and down today as the utility crews repaired all the lines and poles. So, we watched a movie on the laptop and waited for it all to get back together.

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It all came back on tonight just in time for the Live Earth Concert on TV. And, after watching some if it, I feel overwhelmed and must comment on it, even though I try and keep from commenting much about such things on this tome...

It was so touching that I have decided to do my little part to stop this Global Warming disaster. I have decided to only use just one finger when typing any online message from now on. I know this will consume a lot of my time, and will cause me many hardships, but it will be worth it. I can relish that the sacrifice will be for a good cause, and hopefully, I can get everybody in the world to also do this one little thing with me, thereby slowing down all online activity in the world. So, if you are reading this - Please send it to at least 10 of your friends and tell them to send it to 10 of their friends, etc...

If successful, it will reduce the overall amount of electricity and air conditioning required to support all the Internet servers in the world. I figure, that if we all just do this one little thing, no matter how painful it might seem to each of us individually, we could save enough energy to offset the methane gas of at least a couple dozen dairy cows, and thereby save the world...

Even if it doesn't save the world, at least we will all feel better about having sacrificed our time and resources to try and do it - and isn't that what it's all about?

I have also developed a new yoga pose to demonstrate to the world how to free up all their pent up tensions and concerns about the Global Warming issue. If Al Gore, and all his followers, will just do this one Yoga pose, it will show the world what is really going on...